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Ann Coulter Slammed by Conservatives for Dissing Soccer
newsmax.com ^ | July 1, 2014 | Drew MacKenzie

Posted on 07/01/2014 3:15:08 PM PDT by PROCON

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter has been shown a red card for her controversial comments criticizing the World Cup and calling soccer a girls’ game.

On the eve of the United States game against Belgium, Coulter has been blasted by fellow conservatives who have scoffed at her claim that "any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation’s moral decay," Politico reported.

On Fox & Friends, host Brian Kilmeade attacked Coulter, saying, "I will outline what she said and try to find anything factual in it. That will be an interesting little exercise."

And Fox News host Shep Smith said sarcastically, "I'm told it's a sign of moral decay. It's not."

Although millions of Americans are watching every match in the tournament being held in Brazil, especially the U.S. team, Coulter suggested that only Americans of Hispanic descent are viewing the games.

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To: Calvin Locke

“I rarely partake of tv news any more, even before BHO, to the extent I can’t even remember the last time I watched FNC”

Yeah, I have a hard time watching it anymore either. Especially after all the bogus polls showing Romney winning in a landslide. I might tune in once in a while, but not very often.


61 posted on 07/02/2014 6:08:54 AM PDT by Durbin
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To: the scotsman

Soccer is slow and dull. :-)


62 posted on 07/02/2014 8:09:20 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: miss marmelstein

I was sick of the soccer bashing (actually I thought you liked it) and deciced to dish out a few retorts. At no point did I do anything that bash an ‘american’ sport (which ironically turns out to be English), so please don’t try to turn this into some Scotsman America-bash.

Happy Birthday by the way, if belatedly (I have been ill this week).

If you are a baseball fan, fine. Personally I think its dull, and that its hypocritical for Americans to criticise it when the two main US sports are stop-start, and take 3-4 hrs to complete. In the case of the NFL, ‘60 minutes’ of action. And that neither sport is known for its incredible physical examples (at least not baseball and the NFL has more overweight players than adonises).


63 posted on 07/05/2014 3:40:11 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: miss marmelstein

Get over yourself, lassie.


64 posted on 07/05/2014 3:40:52 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: miss marmelstein

Baseball was invented in 18th C England, called ‘base ball’, and is referenced in Northhanger Abbey. In case you are interested.


65 posted on 07/05/2014 3:43:16 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Baseball and ‘football’ aren’t?.


66 posted on 07/05/2014 3:44:11 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: the scotsman

Can you please go away and take your thin skin with you?


67 posted on 07/05/2014 4:07:09 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: miss marmelstein

NO.

Grow up, this is a forum, put me on ignore if you hate me that much.


68 posted on 07/05/2014 4:27:41 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: miss marmelstein

Coulter’s column may well have been funny. But I’d never read it because Coulter calling herself a conservative is not funny, not at all.


69 posted on 07/05/2014 4:31:59 AM PDT by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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To: miss marmelstein
Can you please go away and take your thin skin with you?

Good luck...soccerbots are worse than Obamabots...

On a related note...we have an 'ignore' button? Where?

70 posted on 07/05/2014 4:35:11 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: the scotsman

I didn’t even know we had an “ignore” button, lol.


71 posted on 07/05/2014 4:37:16 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: miss marmelstein

LOL

I don’t think we do.

Look, I thought we wuz friends.

I love soccer and sick of the bashing it gets here, and especially on the basis of ignorant argument and knowledge (the socialist argument being the classic and utterly ironic nonsense example). A lot of which simply becomes Brit and Euro bashing.

I am sanding up for it and am firing back at American or Canadian sports I think are rubbish.

People need to learn to tae it as much as they dish it out.


72 posted on 07/05/2014 12:36:30 PM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: PROCON
Soccer is 3rd world crap and should be illegal in this country!
73 posted on 07/05/2014 12:45:03 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: the scotsman

There are plenty of fans of soccer here - why they even spell it “futbol.” Always remember, I don’t think of soccer as a British sport with handsome chaps from Downton Abbey or, better yet, The Go-Between. I think of it as a sport full of undersized Spanish guys biting and faking injuries. I just don’t like it, I also think it I completely un-American, and if I can get an amusing shot in at it, I will. That’s Free Republic!

We would be friends if you would just drop the “irony” thing. Since most your compatriots don’t know the difference between irony and sarcasm, your use of it is rather pointless. Why don’t you link to culture in Great Britain? Food! Plays! Books! Now that’s something to tip your hat to.


74 posted on 07/05/2014 1:28:34 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Viennacon
Ann Coulter published a piece today defending Thad Cochran's "victory" and attacking Chris McDaniel and the Tea Party movement (yet again).

Chris Christie, Mitt Romney and Thad Cochran have been promoted by Coulter, but the Tea Party movement and Chris McDaniel have been her most recent critics.

I don't know what's up with her, but she seems to have "jumped the shark" and decided to cozy up to the establishment.

Very, very disappointing.

75 posted on 07/09/2014 9:24:19 PM PDT by Impeach98 (Anti-war protestors should try holding rallies in Damascus and Tehran!)
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To: Impeach98

Coulter is a traitor. Lets just say it. She wants Romney 2016 and now this. She will forever be known as the fraud who defended voter fraud.


76 posted on 07/09/2014 9:26:20 PM PDT by Viennacon (Rebuke the Repuke!)
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To: Viennacon
Here's more on her recent column attacking Chris McDaniel - as you and I have both concluded, it is VERY disappointing. Apparently there's not a self-serving angle for Coulter to be on board with McDaniel and the Tea Party in this case, so she's decided to take on the role of attack dog for the establishment: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/211786-ann-coulter-comes-to-cochrans-defense#ixzz371EkgUxg
77 posted on 07/09/2014 9:29:26 PM PDT by Impeach98 (Anti-war protestors should try holding rallies in Damascus and Tehran!)
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To: PROCON

Those Fox guys are just ticked that she was right. She does that from time to time.


78 posted on 07/09/2014 9:29:44 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: Viennacon
To our friends here at Free Republic who have tried to defend her recent conduct, she called McDaniel's supporters "clowns and nuts."

Sigh, what a disappoint Ann has turned out to be.

79 posted on 07/09/2014 9:33:26 PM PDT by Impeach98 (Anti-war protestors should try holding rallies in Damascus and Tehran!)
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